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North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
Daniel Tudor
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Description for North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, 16-pp colour insert of rarely seen images of North Korea. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 212 x 24. Weight in Grams: 382.
**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist**
Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.
North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even as it pays little more than lip service to the wellbeing of the overwhelming ... Read more
**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist**
Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors.
North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the "theater state" even as it pays little more than lip service to the wellbeing of the overwhelming ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
396g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Boston, United States
ISBN
9780804844581
SKU
V9780804844581
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Daniel Tudor
Daniel Tudor is from Manchester, England, and graduated with a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University. He has lived in Seoul, Korea for many years, and served as The Economist's Korea Correspondent from 2010-2013. His first book, 'Korea: The Impossible Country' received high praise and has also been translated into Korean, Chinese, Polish, and Thai. Daniel ... Read more
Reviews for North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
"North Korea Confidential gives us a deeply informed close-up. Tudor, a former correspondent for The Economist, and Pearson, a Reuters reporter, have pieced together their story from North Korean insiders, defectors, diplomats and traders, and from a careful reading of texts in English, Korean and Chinese."
New York Times "North Korean society is rapidly changing, affecting everything from what people ... Read more
New York Times "North Korean society is rapidly changing, affecting everything from what people ... Read more